Although they are relative latecomers on the evolutionary scene, having emerged only 135?
170 million years ago, angiosperms—or flowering plants—are the most diverse and species …

(1. Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH3 5LR, UK; 2. Guangxi Key Laboratory of
Plant Conservation and Restoration Ecology in Karst Terrain, Guangxi Institute of Botany …

In recent years significant advances have been made in the taxonomy and classification of
the Gesneriaceae, mostly based on molecular-phylogenetic research. This has led to major …

The Gesneriaceae is a family known for convergent evolution of complex floral forms. As a
result, defining genera and resolving evolutionary relationships among such genera using …

The neotropical plant genus Drymonia displays a remarkable variety of floral shapes and
colors. One feature that is particularly important to coevolution with pollinators involves the …

Background Major factors influencing the phenotypic diversity of a lineage can be
recognized by characterizing the extent and mode of trait evolution between related species …

Paradrymonia Hanst.(Gesneriaceae) with 40 currently recognized species is a genus of
facultative epiphytic herbs that inhabits the forest understory. The genus occurs throughout …

A new species of Drymonia from Northern Peru was recently discovered during exploratory
field work and is described here. Drymonia cutervoensis JL Clark, R. Rojas & Rob. Fern. is …

Recent expeditions to the northern Cordillera Occidental of the Colombian Andes and
preliminary work on a revision of Drymonia (Gesneriaceae, tribe Episcieae) have resulted in …

 Abstract A narrowly endemic new species of Glossoloma is described from the Cordillera
Oriental of the northern Andes, in the Colombian departments of Caquetá and Huila …